English Translation

g0a -62 - would not be fulfilled in the expected mass, all the more emphasis and hope were placed on advertising among the Czechoslovak people in the United States. Therefore, at the beginning of June l9l7 Dr. Milan Rostislav Stefanik'nach Ame- rike to negotiate with the government of the United States and the Czechoslovak organizations and to win both for the army. The diplomatic art of the unscathed and sincere Slovak succeeds with the help of the French to win the government. so that it agrees with the classification of the Czechoslovak army, It was a great success that the great employee of T.G. Masaryks achieved here and it was about the fact that this success was also ended with a simple result of advertising. What hope has been expressed in America is well illustrated by the letter Dr.E, Beiešs, in which he writes the "Czech National Assembly": 'With immense joy I can tell you that we have achieved the first great success since President Wilson's note. The Czech army in France has been approved by the government. It is important that Štefnik's success be assessed all the more so that many soldiers come from America, if we can set up an army of several divisions, we have: everything won". From this letter we felt the great hope in America; lcider could not fully fulfill this side of his mission America. From there 3o.ooo man and Dr. Štefanik came to America with this hope as well. Vie- le, who did not know the right Stanc of things, strengthened him in this hope. It was not suspected that Cass was already in the Tsclechoslovak Armee in France at 3o.ooo Czechoslovaks and that another large number was in the military camps in America, many of them were already dead on the Franconian battlefields. It was physically impossible to advertise new tens of thousands under the Czech and Slovak branch, especially because no new single boys came to America since 19l4, and all the rest of the male youth, as far as it was not in the army, were, except for a small remainder, family fathers and breadwinners. -63 -